Becoming · Volbeat

150 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-32, 37-39 and 45-47, and 6 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BECOMING · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 4, 36, 40, 44, 48 and 19 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 20 sections: 90 keep time, 25 are fills, 13 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART E
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART P
PART U
CHORUS 6
PART I
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHEIPU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Becoming?

215 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Becoming hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Becoming?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 4, 36, 40, 44, 48 and 19 more.

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